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Garden habitats for frogs
I seem to have created the perfect habitat for my frogs. It's not a large garden, marsh or meadow, but a tatty grow bag from last year, screened by willow edging and topped with dead foliage. It's an absolute eyesore and I hate it, but to my frogs it's five-star accommodation.
Last July, I responded to a Freecycle email from someone who'd filled in her established pond and razed her entire garden to the ground, prior to a redesign. It was no longer a safe habitat for frogs, and those she'd found she'd caught and kept in a jar, ready… Continue reading
Red sky in the morning…
Warning: winter still rules at the summerhouse
Denmark's weather and temperatures perhaps a month behind London with snow still nestling stubbornly under the banks. Everywhere there lie "lakes" of thick milky ice. The earth still too frozen for melt to drain away. Not to say it isn't sunny. Just that the warmth of the sun is like a one-bar fire in an open barn in a gale. Thank God for last year's logs which a kindly neighbour has loaded and lit in the stove.
A huge sea storm has left the garden looking like an explosion in a tree factory,… Continue reading
